I love the word and the concept of mansplaining. My understanding of it is slightly different though - I think it's men explaining things to women who actually already understand those things as well as, or better than, the women they are talking to. See Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things To Me.

"Womansplain" would be a reasonable way of describing the phenomenon of women persistently and unstoppably explaining things that men already understand to men. But since this is not actually a phenomenon that exists (at least not in the world most of us live in) we don't need the word womansplain.

I think, like anything, it can be used to silence another point of view! and I don't like to see it used in that way. But also it does describe a particular phenomenon of men talking down to women, which isn't quite covered by patronising, usually because the man wouldn't explain it in the same way to another man.

So I think it's a useful word to have.

And let's look at some of the words used to describe women's conversations:Bitch festNagMoanA coven cackling Bitter

The thing is, men do this all the time. They enter a conversation that women are having and start explaining to these women the very thing they are speaking about. Its patronising and it should be called out. Actually, men just explain everything to women. As if women could never join a conversation without being given a cheat sheet first. When i asked my dad if he had an elbow bend knocking about in the shed, i got him telling me what an elbow bend is. I know what it is, thats why im asking for one, because i need it. But if i explain something to him im apparently being sarcastic and talking to him like hes a kid.